> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Mace [mailto:amace@unix2.nysed.gov]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 9:56 AM
> To: Richard Gosling
> Cc: List, Spitfire
> Subject: Re: Paul's Mk IV 1500
>
>
>
> On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Richard Gosling wrote:
>
> > ...Oh, and of course the badging...Mk IV's had a metal badge on
> > the front left corner of the bonnet, and back right corner
> of the boot,
> > while the 1500 used transfers in those areas.
>
> US models might have been different, but I don't recall any badges on
> either Mk.IV or early US 1500 boot lids. There were badges on
> each rear
> quarter, though: "Spitfire IV" on the Mk.IV cars and
> "Spitfire 1500" on
> the 1973-74 US 1500s. In each case, these rear quarter badges
> were very
> similar to the bonnet badge but rectangle rather than parallelogram.
Of course you are right, Andy. The badges on the boot lid didn't
show up until, the rest of the world got the 1500 engine.
>
> Our 1975-on Spitfire 1500s did have the transfers on bonnet and boot.
>
> > I assume the metal badges
> > would be riveted on (can a Mk IV owner out there
> confirm/deny that?), so
> > if the badges were removed there would be a couple of holes
> where they
> > should be...
>
> Not riveted per se but held on by what Triumph called
> "friction bushes" --
> those little black plastic inserts in the hole in the sheet metal that
> held the cast-in pins on the back of the badge.
>
> --Andy
>
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Doug Mitchell
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mailto:dmitchel@ford.com
'73 Spitfire 1500
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